My Hemlock SRT is a great dual function lake and whitewater solo canoe, but it's too tippy for me to stand up in with confidence. It's an adventure in equipoise even switching from a kneeling to a sitting position and vice versa.
When paddling a twisty slow creek, swamp, marsh or vly, I often miss the ability to stand up and perhaps paddle-pole as I can do with my tandem canoes. But tandems are too long and much too heavy for the niche solo canoe I have in mind.
Are their any very lightweight, center seat, solo canoe models that are stand-up-able? And yet are not pigs or dogs to paddle. I like a 15' length for solo canoes. The lines of the Stewart River Ami appeal to me, but it's too heavy and much too expensive.
Ideas appreciated.
When paddling a twisty slow creek, swamp, marsh or vly, I often miss the ability to stand up and perhaps paddle-pole as I can do with my tandem canoes. But tandems are too long and much too heavy for the niche solo canoe I have in mind.
Are their any very lightweight, center seat, solo canoe models that are stand-up-able? And yet are not pigs or dogs to paddle. I like a 15' length for solo canoes. The lines of the Stewart River Ami appeal to me, but it's too heavy and much too expensive.
Ideas appreciated.